Agreed... no need yo distort the past. The Foundation was created and paid for by non-AA members, The money came from Rockefeller via Riverside Church. The...
Your last 2 sentences are dead on Cliff. B ... service organizations came about. I am also sure that those A.A.'s also felt that they were only continuing the...
The answer is yes Al. Problem is it would take roughly 92 voting members of the GSC with intestinal fortitude to do so. Oh yeah, someone has to submit it as...
Your "1/3 of of the GSC are paid workers" is bogus. You have the GM and the staff plus the Grapevine and La Vina editors which equals 14 paid workers. That's...
Now thats an interesting question! ... From: Al C. To: GSOwatch@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:45 PM Subject: RE: [GSOwatch] 1953 GSC...
No greg, you are not" out of reality" in your description of how our service organizations came about. I am also sure that those A.A.'s also felt that they...
Hi GSOwatchers, Norm, THANKS for being the repository of this invaluable AA history. I still question whether the "GSC" truly represented the membership of ...
Dale V. of Tyler, TX, who graciously came to Share his story at the Last Thursday BD & Pot-Luck Supper is a very tallented cartoonist, choosing mostly A.A....
Since all an AA groups to supply all of its literature - now is as good a time as any to muddy the water.... Let's see now.... hmmm perhaps some imaginary AA's...
The Traditions came from the AA groups and as Bill W. states himself he just wrote them down. You can read most of our Traditions in the Forward to the 1st...
Hi Group; Many of the problems of the Central Office Intergroup were created by the groups themselves. There is nothing wrong with the Intergroup Idea and it ...
I've been around long enough to know that there has always been some drama going on about the "local" central office. It is usually about some "power...
The comments about the Central Offices/Intergroups I hear on this site from time to time seem to indicate that they are the real AA service entities. I have...
The 1953 GSC report is on the aamo.info website. http://gsowatch.aamo.info/gsc53/gsc53_40.jpg is the page I believe Greg is referring to. About the conference...
P109 It was recommended that. The Board of Trustees feel free to choose an area from which a trustee is to be selected and to recommend the qualifications the...
I agree again. Fooling folks has been fairly easy. I think Bill W. was fooled. There has never been any refuting that the Foundation was set up and funded by...
You are on the right track Greg. It was all part of "AA Comes of Age" where AA was handed to the fellowship. The fellowship was to elect "Delegates" to...
The reason given by GSO is so that the Areas and Districts would be aware of so-called "Dark Groups or Districts". In other words, groups or districts that...
Hi Al, I'm pretty sure that the General Service Conference of 1953 authorized the inclusion of the words "Alcoholics Anonymous" in the new name of the...
And just how long has GSBAA, Inc, AAWS, Inc, been authorized by the membership to include the words Alcoholics Anonymous within their titles? To cease to give...
We agree... on the pesumpti9on that there is a corporation that is somehow "AA"..... what possible purpose is there for "tracking and registering" AA groups?,...
My sponsor was the registration chair for Area 5, which at the time was the biggest Area in AA. His predecessor Lisa S. got a job at a desk in the NY ...
One of my favorite former Trustee from SW Region put the question forth to the board as to why we even need a tracking and registering system, which I feel is...
Over the last year or two I've received plenty of information about this "new" registration thing "Fellowship New View". All I recall is that it was over...
Bill W felt our message was so important that we couldn't allow a lack of funding from the fellowship to derail the effort, so we would always have the "book...
Hi Bill: First, for the most part, GSB and AAWS (that includes something called GSO) are already cut off. I think an objective overview of what is going on...
Over here in New Zealand, Big Books cost $20 NZ and we get ours from you guys in the states. As I said earlier the only literature we have printed here are...
Bill writes "We may be just "p***ing in the wind" but that is better than doing nothing at all" What if isn't better than just DROPPING it? What if you are...
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